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Prof. Matthias Thommes (Institute of Separation Science and Technology (TVT), Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg) and Prof. Stefano Brandani (University of Edinburgh) are pleased to invite you to the Erlangen-Edinburgh School of Adsorption 2025, which will take place from September 3 ...

The 36th German Zeolite Conference (DZT) and the Annual Meeting of the DECHEMA group Adsorption will take place February 26th through 28th, 2025 at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Organized by DECHEMA e.V., the conference is hosted by the Institute of Separation Science and Te...

Congratulations to Simon Eder for his successful doctoral thesis defense on 09.01.2025! He presented his work “The Influence of Confinement on the Adsorption Behavior of Supercritical Fluids in Nanoporous Materials for Gas Storage Applications”. During his PhD thesis supervised by Prof. Matthias ...

Prof. Matthias Thommes was an invited lecturer at this prestigious event, which was organized by Prof. Annette Andrieu-Brunsen (TU Darmstadt, Germany), Prof. Omar Azzaroni (INIFTA, La Plata, Argentina) and Prof. Galo Soler-Illia (UNSAM, San Martin, Argentina) with support by the VolkswagenStiftung. ...

Prof. Matthias Thommes, Head of Institute of Separation Science and Technology (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) has been distinguished for his outstanding contributions to the fundamentals of adsorption and the characterization of porous materials by the Separation Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). The Plaque of Honor was awarded to him during a dedicated Honorary Session at the AIChE Annual Meeting 2024 on October 28th in San Diego, California, USA.

The Adsorption and Nanoporous Materials Characterization group presented latest research results at the AIChE Annual Meeting 2024, which took place from October, 27 to October, 31 2024 in San Diego, California, USA. Carola Vorndran talked about “Advanced Textural and Surface Chemistry Characterizati...

We are happy to announce that on October 14th, 2024, Malvina Supper very successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “Development of High-Resolution Chromatographic Processes for the Separation of Polydisperse Polymers and Nanoparticles”. 

On September 19-20, 2024, the BASF Conceptual Engineering Academy on Tour took place at the Institute of Separation Science and Technology in Erlangen, offering students a unique opportunity to gain practical insights into the field of process engineering.

Prof. Dr. Thommes is listed once again among the TOP 50 of the worldwide most cited researchers. This is a result of the new Stanford List, which is based on the evaluation of Scopus by researchers of the Stanford University. 223.152 researchers are among the most cited 2% according to the Standford...

Prof. Matthias Thommes gave a talk on “Assessment of Hydrophilicity/Hydrohphobicty in Nanoporous Materials” (authors: Carlos Cuadrado Collados, Carola Schlumberger, Jakob Söllner, Dorothea Wisser, Martin Hartmann, Matthias Thommes) at the 9th ENMIX (Nanoporous Materials Research In Europe) workshop,...